Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of quiver
adjectivequivered (not comparable)
- not comparableFurnished with, or carrying, a quiver for arrows.
'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quivered nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharboured heaths […]
Comus
1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC - not comparableSheathed, as in a quiver.
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Latin pharetrātus
- pharetrātusbefitted with a quiver
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quivered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quivered
MLA
“quivered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quivered. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quivered,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quivered.
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